Church Content – Sermons, Events and More

Description

The Church Content WordPress plugin provides an interface for managing sermons, events, people and locations. Please be aware that a compatible theme is required for presenting content from these church-centric post types in a tightly-integrated manner.

Who this is for

This plugin is intended for a very specific audience. If you are not one of the following then this plugin will not be useful to you.

What it does

It provides post types, taxonomies and fields for sermons, events, people and locations to be shown by a compatible church WordPress theme.

Experienced WordPress developers agree that functionality like this does not belong in themes since themes are intended only for controlling the appearance of a WordPress site. Content that users might expect to take with them if they switch themes should “live” in a plugin in order to avoid theme lock-in. Similarly, our approach is not to present content using the plugin since themes offer more control for that purpose. This is why a compatible theme is required.

Add-ons

Developers

Please see the Developer Guide on churchthemes.com for notes on developing themes that use this plugin. A couple benefits are that you will save time and be helping to accomplish better data portability among church websites powered by WordPress.

Translations

Several translations are available, including English, Spanish, German, French, Portuguese, Swedish, Dutch, Norwegian, Serbian and Slovak. See the Translations section in the plugin’s user guide for a more complete list. Also see translate.wordpress.org.

Install the Custom Recurring Events add-on for recurrence like “every two weeks” and “third Sunday of every month”.

How can I make content show differently?

Please contact the maker of your theme. This plugin handles the management of content in a way friendly to both users and theme developers. The presentation of content is handled by a compatible theme.

Reviews

We moved our church’s website to WordPress and churchthemes.com Exodus theme in 2015 and got some professional help to automate the transfer of our existing sermon records from our old (drupal) site into the new site, and since then it has been smooth sailing. This past year churchthemes.com came out with the new Saved theme, so when our license for Exodus expired, we switched to Saved. It was super-easy to make the switch and since the sermons plugin is separate from the theme, nothing needed to be done to them. It’s funny how quickly themes “age”, so I’m glad that churchthemes.com keeps it fresh! And since the sermons are just a custom post type (and it bears repeating that the sermons plugin is separate from the theme), we could even switch to a non-churchthemes.com theme without losing any data. I expect that churchthemes.com will continue to provide great themes at good prices though, so I’m hoping that will not be a concern for a long, long, long time.

The code is well thought out and extremely easy to work with. If you are building a church website or creating a church WordPress theme, this plugin is simply indispensable. Easy to integrate and powerful content tools make it a perfect foundation for any church website.

This is the best plugin I’ve ever used and implemented to a church theme. As a developer of church WordPress theme (one of my initial theme is Wise Church WordPress theme), I find it very useful and speeds up the development time instead of creating a new plugin.

Thank you Steven for providing a lot of effort with this plugin, and I am willing to contribute with this theme in some other ways.